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Tow wheel, designed for spinning “tow,” the leftover fibers from hackling flax. Wooden wheel with a single treadle. Treadle is parallel to the table and is about the same length as the table. The drive wheel is perpendicular to the table and the treadle.
Bonnie’s upright wheel with some unusual features. Simple wooden wheel, single treadle, single drive wheel is perpendicular to the treadle.
Florence’s upright wheel, likely from the Tirol area of Europe. Single treadle wooden wheel with ornamental turning. Single drive wheel which is parallel to the treadle.
Karelian spinning wheel; a Finnish spinning wheel with a double rim. Horizontal structure, bobbin and flyer wheel with single treadle.
Detail of two accelerating wheels that are part of a three-stage pulley system on a great wheel.
The Aurora Colony wheel was designed by Jacob Shaw, who held an early patent for this moving-spindle wheel which pivots from the floor
Child’s great wheel next to full-size great wheel.
Holcomb’s direct drive #1. A variation of a spindle head for a great wheel. Short, turned-wood spindle.
Holcomb’s direct drive #2. A variation of a spindle head for a great wheel. Long metal spindle housed in an open, blocky support structure.
Menard’s direct drive from the front. A variation in spindle head for a great wheel that may or may not be direct drive. Long metal spindle housed in a narrow rectangular wood block.
One-of-a-kind from New York State. Horizontal wheel, single treadle, bobbin and flyer, unusually narrow table.
One-of-a-kind from Australia. Horizontal wheel, single treadle, bobbin and flyer.
One-of-a-kind from England. Green wheel with two treadles and two drive wheels, arranged horizontally.
Sue’s restored cast-iron spinning wheel. Single treadle bobbin and flyer wheel. Red-painted cast-iron drive wheel with S-curve spokes, black cast-iron frame.
Two wheels by Earl Oman, one vertical and one horizontal, both wooden single-treadle bobbin and flyer.
Vertical single-flyer spinning wheel. Although vertical wheels are not a common structure among early American spinning wheels, the turnings and decorative features resemble those of known early wheel makers from Connecticut.
Rear view – Nancy’s wheel. Spinning wheel showing a split-table structure that originated in Sweden.
Guy Wage spinning wheel. Three-legged, single treadle wheel with a hinged-table structure found only in New Zealand.
Shaker umbrella swifts; six wooden umbrella swifts, all different sizes, arranged by height.
Squirrel-cage swift with three cages arranged vertically.
Flax wheel signed “IA.K 1776.” Three legged, medium wood wheel with sloped table, attached distaff, broken treadle, and missing bobbin and flyer.
Flax wheel signed “IH.K 1791.” Three-legged, dark wood bobbin and flyer wheel with sloped table.
Dutch all-in-one wheel back view. Wheel is designed to spin, wind skeins, and hold bobbins.
Free-standing “chapeau de gendarme” (or “policeman’s hat”) reel; four-armed winder with handle; winder and handle on opposite sides of a small box, which is, in turn, supported by wooden legs.
Susie’s wheel from the front; two drive wheels arranged horizontally; bobbin and flyer above. Double treadle.
Bill’s wheel with horizontal drive wheel and single treadle.
Great Wheel Signed “IH.K 1793.” Incomplete; three-legged frame, mother-of-all, and rear maiden are present; drive wheel and remainder of spindle head are missing.
5-armed winder signed “WILM KEIM GERMANTOWN”
Skinner wheel set up in the alternative arrangement as a bobbin winder or quiller, as described in the written description of the 1818 Skinner patent.
Shaker great wheel marked “A B”
Rear view of a Dutch all-in-one wheel with a horizontal arrangement
Betty Roberts’ first wheel, a single treadle castle wheel.
Betty Roberts’ 1980s model wheel. Bobbin and flyer wheel with vertical arrangement of two drive wheels with decorative sides; single treadle.
Line drawing of a three-legged, single treadle, bobbin and flyer wheel from 1928 brochure published by Industries Desjardins / Desjardins Industries, Saint André, Quebec.
Wheel marked Charles Regeimbal. Wooden single-treadle wheel with bobbin and flyer.
